“Vibrant and sensitive…Miss Harris’ performance gives off a lot of fervid heat…Ethel Waters glows with a warmth of personality and understanding…Brandon de Wilde is delightfully mettlesome and humorous.” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

“A film poem. Under Fred Zinnemann’s direction, it often reaches successfully for that most elusive of movie qualities—the catch in the throat.” – Time Magazine

Über-producer Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg) and sterling director Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons) bring us The Member of the Wedding (1952), a sensitive film version of Carson McCullers’ Broadway play, adapted from her own novel. Julie Harris – who created the role of yearning adolescent tomboy, Frankie, on the stage – is joined here by fellow original cast members Ethel Waters, as the mother figure Berenice, and Brandon de Wilde, as a mischievous young cousin, John Henry. Cinematography is by the great Hal Mohr (Rancho Notorious) and the extraordinary score – available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track – is by legendary composer Alex North.